activity 5
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TIME LINE OF TYPOGRAPHYTRANSCRIPT
15000 B.C 3100 B.C 1750 B.C 1500 B.C 1300 B.C 1000 B.C
1440 1040 800 114 C.E 197B.C 400B.C
1450 1470 1501 1530 1557 1692
Discovered in 1940, Lascaux paintings are 17300 years old.
Bronze Script writing
Book of the dead
Early Sumerian pictographs
Law code of Hammurabi
Rash Sharma script
Demotic Scrip
Chinese movable type
Rosetta Stone
Trajan’s Column Constructed
Book of Kells
Guttenberg perfects typographic printing
Unical
Romain du roi Typeface
Civilite Typeface
Jensen’s Roman Typeface
Grifffo Design first italic typeface
Claude Garamond Typeface
1840’s 1820’s 1816 1798 1760 1750’s
1880’s 1890’s 1900’s 1925 1927 1932
1980’s 1970’s 1967 1960’s 1950’s 1940’s
Slab Serif and Egyptian Typefaces
Clarendon
Cushing
Serifa
First San Sarif Type faces
Doric 12
Transitional Roman
Baskerville Typeface
Fournier
Modern Didone
1760
Lithographic system of image reproduction invented by Alois Senefelder.
Industrial Revolution, Introduction of diplay and decorative typefaces.
Poplar,Birch
First Magazine Typeface created by Morris Benton
Benton Century Old Style
Sans Serif Typefaces
Basic Commercial
Franklin Gothic
News Gothic
Stanley Morrison creates one of the most commonly used serif faces.
Times New Roman
Jan Tschichold
“Die Neue typographie”
Sans Serif Type influenced by Bauhaus art movement
Bauhaus Medium
Bauhaus Demi
Arts & Crafts Movement led by William Morris
Belwe Type , Clearface
Tiffany
Modernism & The punk movement influence type of design
Ransom Note
Psychedelic Type and Poster art
Amelia LL
Bad Acid
World War 2, Introduction of Stencil Typefaces
Tea Chest
Stencil
Neo-Grotesque
Sans Serif Typefaces
1st Machine readable typefaces
Ocra Std
Ocra Lt
Launch of the Apple
Mac Post Modernism
Neville Brody Art Director
Insignia
1990’s 2000 2004 2008
Gotham Typeface Created
Klavika Typeface
Museo Typeface
David Carson Ray Gun Magazine.
Grunge fonts
Blur Medium, Base 02,Polly